Cancer Foundation releases its donor list

Today the much-scrutinized Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Foundation — created to supplement the salaries of decision makers at CPRIT, the state cancer agency — released a list of its donors. Reporters, including those from the Chronicle, have been seeking these records for weeks.

For more on the significance of the foundation, and why there’s the potential for conflicts of interest, see this story.

Individuals or organizations that contribute to the CPRIT Foundation are not eligible to receive grant funds from the $3 billion cancer agency. But there’s a catch – not-for-profit organizations affiliated with institutions and companies that receive grants can contribute.

As the donor list below shows, a lot of institutions whose researchers received grants from the cancer agency donated to the foundation that supported the salaries of the cancer agency’s chief executive, Bill Gimson, and its chief scientific officer, Dr. Alfred Gilman.